I get up in the morning, torture a
typewriter until it screams, then stop.
–Clarence Budington Kelland

Do you get up in the morning and feel
it’s torture to write? But you keep
going until your time limit. Just one
more paragraph, one more word,
twenty more minutes? Do you feel
better after you stop writing instead of
feeling the joy while you are writing?
When you’ve stopped writing, the
good feelings should be of
accomplishment not of drudgery.

Do you re-read what you’ve written?
Does it sound good to you or strained?
This would be a good time to decide if
you write because you enjoy it or
because someone else wants you to
enjoy it.

Today: What do you want to do?